That's not a choice, that's a deterministic decision.
What the hell? That's very clearly a choice. While I may prefer chocolate, I don't always choose chocolate. If the decision were deterministic, I'd choose the same thing every time, but I don't.
The whole free will debate is off the mark anyways. Whether we truly have free will or not, it's useful to believe we do. This is one of those cases where you say, "accuracy be damned", and believe what is most expedient. If everyone thought we behaved deterministically, a lot of people would just give up hope (what's the point, after all, if your decisions are made for you?)... so even if free will is an illusion, let it stand. When a film-maker produces illusions, we don't sit and pick his illusions apart... we recognize that it's a hell of a lot more entertaining if we just let ourselves believe the illusion, truth be damned.
Bad luck? I've never had a problem with WD, I swear by 'em. One of us is having unusual luck, and I'd prefer to think it's you.;)
Maxtor, on the other hand... I lost count of how damned many Maxtor drives I've seen die. Single most failure-prone drive manufacturer I've come across. Everyone else, I see a dead drive here and there, nothing serious, but Maxtor is obscene.
I'd disagree that Apple does a whole lot of creative stuff. They do some, but it's not close to what they're given credit for. Apple is hailed as an innovative company, but (in recent history, anyway) they actually rarely innovate. They just take other people's ideas, put a whopping big coat of spit-shine on it, and sell it. That's not a bad business model, but it certainly isn't innovative.
I see entirely too much light from Master Jobs to consider him a paragon of the dark side.
You must not be talking about Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, then. Apple is a company so evil that they make even Microsoft blush. For example: their anticompetitive bullshit with Psystar.
Well, DLC doesn't make the game 100%... but it's VERY heavily weighted for me, since it means I don't have to wait until a new release of the game to get more music to jam to. The wait between GH1 and GH2, for example, was practically an eternity, and I was bored silly of GH1's songs by the time GH2 came out. DLC solves that problem.
The other big factor is the songs on the disc, and while we don't know GH4's whole list, their list looks pretty mediocre so far (as does RB2's list). Neither of those is very compelling to me. Hardware... the Strat is guitar enough for me, so that doesn't matter, and the drums look to be about the same (also, I don't really play drums in Rock Band). A mic is a mic, so that doesn't matter. In any case, once the hardware reaches a certain level, it doesn't weigh very heavily any more, in my opinion. Both games have pretty good hardware, and that's all that matters. GH4 will probably have better graphics (GH3 did, so I foresee no change there), but once you get down to graphics, you're talking about pretty minor factors.
The one GH4 feature everyone is excited about, the song creator, doesn't excite me in the least. I'm not about to wade through the astounding amounts of shit that people will produce just to find good songs, though. User-created content, 99% of the time, fails really hard, so this feature is basically just fluff to me.
Note that I said "no chance at being a better game". That doesn't mean you'll want to do business with Harmonix more, just that they'll have the better product.
That pretty much depends on whether or not they have decent DLC availability. GH3's DLC was pretty damn lackluster, and if GH4 continues that trend, it has no chance at being a better game.
Of course not. That said, there is such a thing as too extreme a punishment, and I don't know that $100,000 is merited, even for criminal copyright infringement.
However, I could forgive the latter. The former is the real problem.
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Please tell me you're joking. The qualities I listed are what led us to our loss of freedoms!!!
That's just flat out wrong. History tells us it is wrong, because there have been much better excuses to do what he's done in the last 200 years.
The question is not whether worse events have happened, but have the people ever been so stupid en masse?
I know a lot of Reps like to spread this story these days. I think the alternative, that people should have voted for someone w/o the magic "(R)" after his name, is just too horrible for them to contemplate.
I'm not a Republican. I vote for the best guy, whether he be Republican, Democrat, or whatever. I say again, most politicians would've done the same. Have you even seen how corrupt and power-hungry our traitors in Congress are?
If you think that GWB is stupid and incompetent, that's more proof you shouldn't be trusted with voting, or sharp objects (to use your own punishment). He's neither. He's corrupt and power-hungry. Any appearance of stupidity and incompetence is because he doesn't give a damn what he does, apart from accomplishing his own goals. Also note: I never said we're in a bad spot. We're not. The people's stupidity, and willingness to believe the world is about to fucking end, is what has allowed our government to perpetrate their abuses since 9/11. And yes, almost any politician would have taken advantage of that situation. GWB isn't an exception, he's the rule. They're almost all corrupt and power-hungry.
If you think most other politicians wouldn't have infringed upon our freedoms just as much, given the same circumstances, you really should give up both voting and handling sharp objects.
Bullshit. How many things actually occur that often that require the use of a lawyer? The odds aren't that low that you'll go through your life without needing a lawyer's services.
I don't have to quit my job because you want to smoke.
If your employer wants to allow smoking, then yeah, actually, you do. It's his bloody property, and it's his decision as to whether smoking should be allowed on the premises. Ban smoking in public buildings, and on the public streets, and I'll be behind you all the way. But with private property, the government's authority over smoking ends at the door.
No. No, we do not. The problem is, if we start cherry-picking what we do and don't feel like listening to based on its perceived validity, we are going to shut out correct, but unpopular, viewpoints. Consider what would've happened to our society if people hadn't listened to that moron Galileo, who was dumb enough to claim that the world wasn't the center of the universe, even though everyone knew that was just stupid.
Technically, no we aren't. We're talking about where Linux will be in 3 years, and "in the same spot it is now" is a valid, though unlikely, possibility. Besides, a rather likely scenario is that there won't be any major innovations, but things will continue to evolve bit by bit, just like they are now. Innovation is rare.
No, it isn't. If only one language is in common use in your country and you have no desire to leave the country, there is absolutely no reason to learn a second language, except as an intellectual exercise.
I hate to interrupt a good karma-whoring, but your statement was so asinine I had no choice.
They aren't forcing Dell to adopt OSX. They aren't forcing HP to adopt OSX.
No, they aren't... they're preventing them from adopting OSX, which is just as wrong and anticompetitive as forcing them. If Apple truly makes the superior product, let them prove it in open competition.
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Considering you were never at risk of dying from Y2K, does it matter whether they got to it in time, using your metric?
No, you misunderstand. The article does indeed cover Groklaw's hand in SCO's demise: namely, the fact that its influence was nonexistent.
3. The Joker writes a new improved scheduler which has the potential to replace the old one.
Very efficient. I like it.
That's not a choice, that's a deterministic decision.
What the hell? That's very clearly a choice. While I may prefer chocolate, I don't always choose chocolate. If the decision were deterministic, I'd choose the same thing every time, but I don't.
The whole free will debate is off the mark anyways. Whether we truly have free will or not, it's useful to believe we do. This is one of those cases where you say, "accuracy be damned", and believe what is most expedient. If everyone thought we behaved deterministically, a lot of people would just give up hope (what's the point, after all, if your decisions are made for you?)... so even if free will is an illusion, let it stand. When a film-maker produces illusions, we don't sit and pick his illusions apart... we recognize that it's a hell of a lot more entertaining if we just let ourselves believe the illusion, truth be damned.
When SSDs have large capacities (at least 500 GB) at a comparable price per GB, then I'll consider putting one in my computer. Not before.
Bad luck? I've never had a problem with WD, I swear by 'em. One of us is having unusual luck, and I'd prefer to think it's you. ;)
Maxtor, on the other hand... I lost count of how damned many Maxtor drives I've seen die. Single most failure-prone drive manufacturer I've come across. Everyone else, I see a dead drive here and there, nothing serious, but Maxtor is obscene.
I'd disagree that Apple does a whole lot of creative stuff. They do some, but it's not close to what they're given credit for. Apple is hailed as an innovative company, but (in recent history, anyway) they actually rarely innovate. They just take other people's ideas, put a whopping big coat of spit-shine on it, and sell it. That's not a bad business model, but it certainly isn't innovative.
You have to believe in stupid jesus
Most people in the US don't give a flying fuck if you're at all religious.
I see entirely too much light from Master Jobs to consider him a paragon of the dark side.
You must not be talking about Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, then. Apple is a company so evil that they make even Microsoft blush. For example: their anticompetitive bullshit with Psystar.
Well, DLC doesn't make the game 100%... but it's VERY heavily weighted for me, since it means I don't have to wait until a new release of the game to get more music to jam to. The wait between GH1 and GH2, for example, was practically an eternity, and I was bored silly of GH1's songs by the time GH2 came out. DLC solves that problem.
The other big factor is the songs on the disc, and while we don't know GH4's whole list, their list looks pretty mediocre so far (as does RB2's list). Neither of those is very compelling to me. Hardware... the Strat is guitar enough for me, so that doesn't matter, and the drums look to be about the same (also, I don't really play drums in Rock Band). A mic is a mic, so that doesn't matter. In any case, once the hardware reaches a certain level, it doesn't weigh very heavily any more, in my opinion. Both games have pretty good hardware, and that's all that matters. GH4 will probably have better graphics (GH3 did, so I foresee no change there), but once you get down to graphics, you're talking about pretty minor factors.
The one GH4 feature everyone is excited about, the song creator, doesn't excite me in the least. I'm not about to wade through the astounding amounts of shit that people will produce just to find good songs, though. User-created content, 99% of the time, fails really hard, so this feature is basically just fluff to me.
Note that I said "no chance at being a better game". That doesn't mean you'll want to do business with Harmonix more, just that they'll have the better product.
That pretty much depends on whether or not they have decent DLC availability. GH3's DLC was pretty damn lackluster, and if GH4 continues that trend, it has no chance at being a better game.
Of course not. That said, there is such a thing as too extreme a punishment, and I don't know that $100,000 is merited, even for criminal copyright infringement.
However, I could forgive the latter. The former is the real problem.
o.O
Please tell me you're joking. The qualities I listed are what led us to our loss of freedoms!!!
That's just flat out wrong. History tells us it is wrong, because there have been much better excuses to do what he's done in the last 200 years.
The question is not whether worse events have happened, but have the people ever been so stupid en masse?
I know a lot of Reps like to spread this story these days. I think the alternative, that people should have voted for someone w/o the magic "(R)" after his name, is just too horrible for them to contemplate.
I'm not a Republican. I vote for the best guy, whether he be Republican, Democrat, or whatever. I say again, most politicians would've done the same. Have you even seen how corrupt and power-hungry our traitors in Congress are?
If you think that GWB is stupid and incompetent, that's more proof you shouldn't be trusted with voting, or sharp objects (to use your own punishment). He's neither. He's corrupt and power-hungry. Any appearance of stupidity and incompetence is because he doesn't give a damn what he does, apart from accomplishing his own goals. Also note: I never said we're in a bad spot. We're not. The people's stupidity, and willingness to believe the world is about to fucking end, is what has allowed our government to perpetrate their abuses since 9/11. And yes, almost any politician would have taken advantage of that situation. GWB isn't an exception, he's the rule. They're almost all corrupt and power-hungry.
If you think most other politicians wouldn't have infringed upon our freedoms just as much, given the same circumstances, you really should give up both voting and handling sharp objects.
A bad law which turns out to have good uses does not become a good law.
Bullshit. How many things actually occur that often that require the use of a lawyer? The odds aren't that low that you'll go through your life without needing a lawyer's services.
Well, if my personal experience is any guide, he probably meant his right hand. That's what I secretly mean whenever I mention my "girlfriend".
Don't tell anyone.
I don't have to quit my job because you want to smoke.
If your employer wants to allow smoking, then yeah, actually, you do. It's his bloody property, and it's his decision as to whether smoking should be allowed on the premises. Ban smoking in public buildings, and on the public streets, and I'll be behind you all the way. But with private property, the government's authority over smoking ends at the door.
No. No, we do not. The problem is, if we start cherry-picking what we do and don't feel like listening to based on its perceived validity, we are going to shut out correct, but unpopular, viewpoints. Consider what would've happened to our society if people hadn't listened to that moron Galileo, who was dumb enough to claim that the world wasn't the center of the universe, even though everyone knew that was just stupid.
we are talking about FLOSS and innovation
Technically, no we aren't. We're talking about where Linux will be in 3 years, and "in the same spot it is now" is a valid, though unlikely, possibility. Besides, a rather likely scenario is that there won't be any major innovations, but things will continue to evolve bit by bit, just like they are now. Innovation is rare.
No, it isn't. If only one language is in common use in your country and you have no desire to leave the country, there is absolutely no reason to learn a second language, except as an intellectual exercise.
I hate to interrupt a good karma-whoring, but your statement was so asinine I had no choice.
Anyone know more or want to spread light on the matter?
This is the internet. You don't ever ask for something using the word "spread", because someone will invariably link goatse.
They aren't forcing Dell to adopt OSX. They aren't forcing HP to adopt OSX.
No, they aren't... they're preventing them from adopting OSX, which is just as wrong and anticompetitive as forcing them. If Apple truly makes the superior product, let them prove it in open competition.